Provision a Custom Oracle SOA Cloud Service Instance on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

You use the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provisioning wizard to provision a custom Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance.

Topics:

• Start the Provisioning Wizard

• Specify Basic Service Instance Information

• Specify the Service Instance Details

Start the Provisioning Wizard

This topic does not apply to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic.

Start the provisioning process by creating a new service instance:

1. In the Oracle SOA Cloud Service Console, click Create Instance.

   
   
   

The Create Instance page is displayed.

Specify Basic Service Instance Information

This topic does not apply to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic.

On the Create Instance page of the provisioning wizard, enter basic information for your service instance, including service name, service level, license type, software release, and software edition. Then click Next.

Service Type	Components Installed
Service Name	Specify a name that you will use to identify the new service instance. The name must be unique within the identity domain and must meet the following conditions: Must start with a letter Cannot be longer than 30 characters Cannot contain non-alphanumeric characters, including spaces.
Service Description	You may add an optional description that can be used to help identify this new service. The description is only used during service list display and is not used internally.
Notification Email	(Optional) Specify an email address where you would like to receive a notification when the service instance provisioning has succeeded or failed.
Region	Select the region where you want to create your instance. See Data Regions for Platform and Infrastructure Services for regions where Oracle SOA Cloud Service is available. The database deployment that you intend to associate with your Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance must be in the same region that you select in this field.
Availability Domain	Select an availability domain. A region can have multiple isolated availability domains, each with separate power and cooling. The availability domains within a region are interconnected using a low-latency network. Note that the database deployment that you intend to associate with your Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance can be in a different availability domain within the region. Note: You cannot distribute an Oracle SOA Cloud Service cluster within a region among multiple availability domains in that region.
Subnet	Select a subnet from a virtual cloud network (VCN) that you had created previously in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. See Prerequisites for PaaS Services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation. The database deployment that you intend to associate with your Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance can be on a different subnet, but it must be in the same region and VCN.
Tags	(Optional) Select existing tags or add tags to associate with the service instance. To select existing tags, select one or more check boxes from the list of tags that are displayed on the pull-down menu. To create tags, click Click to create a tag to display the Create Tags dialog box. In the New Tags field, enter one or more comma-separated tags that can be a key or a key:value pair. If you do not assign tags during provisioning, you can create and manage tags after the service instance is created. See Create, Assign, and Unassign Tags.
SSH Public Key	Specify the value of the VM Public Key, or the name of the file that contains the public key value. Define the public key for the secure shell (SSH). This key is used for authentication when connecting to the Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance using an SSH client. Click Edit to display the public key input for VM access and specify the public key using one of the following methods: Select Key File Name and click Browse to select a file that contains the public key for the secure shell (SSH). Select Key Value and paste or type a key value in the text box. Select Create a New Key and click Enter. The Provisioning Wizard generates a key for you. When prompted, save it as a file on your hard drive. Select Key File Name and click Browse to select the file.
License Type	Choose whether you want to leverage the Bring Your Own License (BYOL) option or use your Oracle SOA Cloud Service license. The first option enables you to bring your on-premises Oracle WebLogic Server licenses to Oracle Cloud. Bring Your Own License (BYOL) instances are billed at a lower rate than other instances. See Frequently Asked Questions: Oracle BYOL to PaaS. You must own a Universal Credits subscription or Government subscription in order to use BYOL. Before you scale out a BYOL instance, you must have enough WebLogic Server licenses for the additional OCPUs that will be allocated to the instance after it is scaled. The second option subscribes to a new Oracle SOA Cloud Service license. In this case, your account will be charged for the new service instance according to your Oracle SOA Cloud Service agreement. If you have both BYOL and Oracle SOA Cloud Service entitlements, BYOL is selected by default, but you can change the license type. If you have BYOL entitlements only, BYOL is selected and you cannot change the license type. If you do not have BYOL entitlements, the Oracle SOA Cloud Service license option is selected and you cannot change the license type. See Overview of Oracle Cloud Subscriptions.
Software Release	WebLogic Server and Fusion Middleware 12.2.1.4.0 and 12.2.1.3.0 are supported. Note: You cannot upgrade Oracle SOA Cloud Service instances from earlier releases (such as 12.2.1.3.0) to the latest release (12.2.1.4.0). Instead, provision a new 12.2.1.4.0 instance.

Specify the Service Instance Details

This topic does not apply to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic.

In the Instance Details page, you can configure the service type, shape, size, database, and other important details for your instance.

Topics:

• Select Service Type

• Configure WebLogic Server Access

• Configure the Database

• Configure the Load Balancer

• Configure Backup and Recovery

• Confirm Your Selections

Select Service Type

This topic does not apply to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic.

Select one of the available service types for your Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance.

Item	Description
Business Activity Monitoring	Install and configure Business Activity Monitoring (Oracle BAM). See "Understanding Oracle Business Activity Monitoring" in Monitoring Business Activity with Oracle BAM (12.2.1.4 | 12.2.1.3 | 12.2.1.2 | 12.1.3).
MFT Cluster	Install and configure only Oracle Managed File Transfer Cloud Service. See Using Oracle Managed File Transfer Cloud Service.
SOA with SB & B2B Cluster	Install and configure Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle B2B, Oracle Technology Adapters, and Oracle Cloud Adapters. When you select this service type, the Enable B2B Adapter for EDI checkbox is presented below the dropdown list. You can choose to enable the B2B Adapter for EDI. See B2B Adapter for EDI.

Configure WebLogic Server Access

This topic does not apply to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic.

Specify information about your Oracle WebLogic Server compute shape and administrator details.

Item	Description
Cluster Size	Oracle SOA Cloud Service always creates a domain with one or more servers in a cluster. Choose the cluster size. Choose between 1, 2, 4 or 8 virtual machines (nodes). Note: If you configure more than one node, it is highly recommended that you enable the load balancer on the next page of the Provisioning Wizard.
User Name	The user name of the Oracle WebLogic Server administrator. Note that you can change the user name through the WebLogic Server Administration Console after you have created the instance.
Password	Specify an Oracle WebLogic Server administrator password that meets the following criteria: It must begin with a letter. It must contain between 8 and 30 characters. It must contain at least one number. Optionally, it can contain any number of the following special characters: $ # _. For example: Ach1z0#d.

Configure the Database

This topic does not apply to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic.

Specify information about your database.

For details about the databases supported by Oracle SOA Cloud Service in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, see Database.

Item	Description
Database Type	Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing: Select to provision an Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP) database to use with the SOA with SB & B2B Cluster service type. See Create an Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing Database for Oracle SOA Cloud Service. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Database: Select to provision an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure native database with your Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance. See Create an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Database for Oracle SOA Cloud Service. Note that only native databases belonging to the same region, availability domain, and subnet selected during provisioning of the Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance are available for selection. Therefore, make sure that you choose the same region, availability domain, and subnet in which the native database was provisioned.
Compartment Name	Select the same compartment on which the native database is provisioned from the drop-down list.
Database Instance or Name	Select an existing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure database or Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing database instance name. Note: Oracle SOA Cloud Service supports only serverless deployments of the Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing database. It does not support dedicated deployments. If you selected the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure database, select a native database from the drop-down list. Note that only native databases belonging to the same region, availability domain, and subnet selected during provisioning of the Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance are available for selection.
PDB Name	Enter an optional pluggable database (PDB) name. Note: Oracle SOA Cloud Service supports the use of only a single pluggable database.
Administrator User Name	Your database user name. This value must be set to a database user with SYSDBA system privileges. You can use the default user SYS or any user that has been granted the SYSDBA privilege.
Password	The database administrator password specified when the database instance was created.

Configure the Load Balancer

This topic does not apply to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic.

Specify whether or not you want to use the Oracle Traffic Director (OTD) load balancer.

Notes:

• If you do not select a load balancer, then the Managed Server URLs (b2bconsole, worklistapp) are not accessible using the load balancer IP address.
• To provision the Oracle-managed load balancer, do not provision OTD. Instead, manually set up and configure the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure load balancer as a post-provisioning task (see Configure an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancer Post-Provisioning).

Item	Description
Load Balancer	None: Select if you do not need a load balancer or want to add an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure load balancer post-provisioning (see Configure an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Load Balancer Post-Provisioning). Oracle Traffic Director: Select if you want to manage the load balancer.
Load Balancer Policy (if Oracle Traffic Director is selected)	Select the load balancer mechanism for routing traffic to servers. Least Connection Count. Passes each new request to the managed server with the least number of connections. This policy is useful for smoothing distribution when managed servers slow down. managed servers with greater processing power receive more connections over time. Least Response Time. Passes each new request to the managed server with the fastest response time. This policy is useful when managed servers are distributed across networks. Round Robin. Passes each new request to the next managed server in line, evenly distributing requests across all managed servers regardless of the number of connections or response time.
Compute Shape (if Oracle Traffic Director is selected)	Select the number of Oracle Compute Units (OCPUs) and amount of RAM memory that you want to allocate to the VM for the load balancer. The larger the compute shape, the greater the processing power. The valid compute shapes for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure are: VM.Standard2.1 – 1.0 OCPU, 15.0GB RAM VM.Standard1.2 – 2.0 OCPU, 14.0GB RAM VM.Standard2.2 – 2.0 OCPU, 30.0GB RAM VM.Standard1.4 – 4.0 OCPU, 28.0GB RAM VM.Standard2.4 – 4.0 OCPU, 60.0GB RAM VM.Standard1.8 – 8.0 OCPU, 56.0GB RAM VM.Standard2.8 – 8.0 OCPU, 120.0GB RAM VM.Standard1.16 – 16.0 OCPU, 112.0GB RAM VM.Standard2.16 – 16.0 OCPU, 240.0GB RAM VM.Standard2.24 – 24.0 OCPU, 320.0GB RAM Note: If you select a VM. Standard1.X shape, verify that your account has entitlement for it before proceeding with the provisioning. Note that you cannot change the compute shape after you have created the Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance.

Configure Backup and Recovery

This topic does not apply to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic.

Specify information about the storage container that will be used to store backups. It’s a good idea to create a separate container for each instance you create.

Note:

You must have a current subscription to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage.

Item	Description
Storage Container Name	Enter the URL of an existing bucket in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage. See Prerequisites for Oracle Platform Services in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure documentation. Format: https://swiftobjectstorage.region.oraclecloud.com/v1/account/bucket Example: https://swiftobjectstorage.us-phoenix-1.oraclecloud.com/v1/myCompany/myBucket
Storage User Name	The name of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure administrator. Note: The Oracle Identity Cloud Service (IDCS) Federated user name is not supported.
Cloud Storage Password	Enter the auth token generated in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for the specified user.

Confirm Your Selections

This topic does not apply to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic.

The confirmation page displays the configuration values you choose in the provisioning wizard.

Review the service details. If you need to change the service details, use the navigation bar or Previous button at the top of the wizard to step back through the pages in the wizard. Click Cancel to cancel out of the wizard without creating a new service instance. If you are satisfied with your choices on the Confirmation page, click Create. Click the download icon provided in the top-right of the page to download the REST API used to provision the pod.

Note:

It takes about an hour and a half to create the instance. You are notified by email when it has been created.